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bug#1993: 23.0.60; Emacs.app has only transparent window background
From: |
Tom Hageman |
Subject: |
bug#1993: 23.0.60; Emacs.app has only transparent window background |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:25:47 +0200 |
In article <mailman.4741.1239059038.31690.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, Jason
Rumney wrote:
> Adrian Robert wrote:
> > Do W32 users face this same issue? That is, does 'alt' play the
> > same role on their non-US keyboards as it does on the Mac ones?
> > Can we follow Emacs on W32 in that case?
>
> AltGr is distinct from Alt on Windows, so non-US users just lose one
> of the meta keys on their keyboard. There are some users who prefer
> to use Alt to access the menus though, and use the windows keys for
> meta. Currently this requires a patched version of Emacs to work
> properly, we have papers from the author, we are just waiting for
> the author to clean up the patch so we can install it, for 23.2 now.
Naive suggestion mabe, but as most (all?) Macs also have left- and right-
Alt keys, can't one be used as meta and the other kept as alt?
Regards,
Tom.